Note: The second time I tried this benchmark it didn't work, just the same as the node versions. This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking www.ngspinners.com (be patient) Server Software: lighttpd/1.4.24 Server Hostname: www.ngspinners.com Server Port: 80 Document Path: /home.html Document Length: 6865 bytes Concurrency Level: 5 Time taken for tests: 98.090 seconds Complete requests: 50000 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Total transferred: 359100000 bytes HTML transferred: 343250000 bytes Requests per second: 509.73 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 9.809 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 1.962 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 3575.11 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 9 379.1 0 18992 Processing: 0 1 0.3 1 14 Waiting: 0 1 0.3 1 14 Total: 0 10 379.1 1 18993 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 1 66% 1 75% 1 80% 1 90% 1 95% 1 98% 2 99% 2 100% 18993 (longest request)